Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-04-08
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There Is no worse thief than bad
book.
The worst complications are deepliast
painted.
A French novel is usually a story
with en- immoral.
In politics, what begins in fear
usually ends in folly.
Separate accounts as well as shbrt
ones make best friends.
Never calculate on mild winter be.
cause you are short of feed.
Er boy whut is sassy ter his fodder
is gwine ter be sassy ter de law.
Genuine repentance consists Of having
the heart broken for sin and from sin.
Home Is the enc plaea IA q, sLs.
world where hearts are sure oF escll
other.
| People going on excursions are 50
happy to get home that they are glad
| they went
81 know whom | have believed
There is realm then in which faith
and fact are one.
A bill will be introduced in the next
Peruvian Congress providing for the
establishment of free public schools.
Emperor William has got a cold in
his eye. 1t is questionable if his ply
sician has had the courage to tell him
that it was all in his eye.
The Christian population of Madras
India, in ten years (1s71-1Ss1,) was
found to have increased 165,662, and
still the work continues to be encour.
aging
Some one remarks that "lace is
what rufies the men nowadays" But
he is wrong. Lace rufles the women
as usual. It is paying for it that
rufles the men.
In Abysinia as many as thirty three
Falasha Jews were admitted into the
Christian church, Of whom the native
missionary, who visited England last
May, gave an encouraging account.
There is good authority for the
statement that the Queen of Spain on
ly sees her infant son once day. If
she allows him to bluff her like that,
she will have to mortgage the brown
jewels before long.
Thomas j. Brady. who will be re-
membered as an orthodox Republican
of the old regime, has married widow.
We are glad to see that in his maturer
years he does not want everything, but
is content to take what is left.
Lenten services are held daily at
Trinity Church, New York, for the
benefit OF Wall-street brokers and
business men. The preacher must
be a strong man to lift prayer which
will do that kind of flock any good.
The French Government threatens
to dissolve the Municipal Council Of
Marseilles because thai body approved
of the Paris Commune in 1871. And
yet the Paris Municipal Council is, by
a large majority, communistic in its
opinions to-day.
| Mayor Hewitt of New York is re-
proved by the Manhattan Temper
ance Association for not effectively
closing the saloons on Sunday, and
his Honor retorts that he is powerless
to enforce the law. What can one
} abstemious Mayor do when pitted
| against 10000 thirsty policemen?
Certain mummies which were de-
tanned at the New York Custom-house
, pending payment of the regular al
ualorem tax have, by the authorize
ton Of Acting Secretary Fairchild,
been admitted free. There is no con-
ceivable reason why mummies should
!, not be classified under the category of
deadheads.
The greatest discovery of the age
is laid at the door of w. S. Gilbert
, the brilliant English librettist. He
has found a word which viii rhyme
with month, but what that word is he
refuses at present to reveal. Gilbert
9 is one of those men who, like Keely.
, the motor man, loves to see the world
suffer unnecessarily.
u In the existing controversy over
t Home Rule for Ireland, Salisbury has
espoused the wrong and Gladstone tho
right, and those who tremble for the
result should remember the tabled
foetrace between the hare and the
/ tortoise. Justice is proverbially slow.
but it is inspired with an unwavering
purpose. 1t never lies down to sleep,
and In the end it invariably comes to
the fore
: The aquatic genius, Paul Boyton,
who for lack of ships goes down to the
: sea in rubber suit, though never
r sick himself, seems to have the faculty
s of making old Father Neptune turn
: pale with nausea. He recently at.
tempted to voyage from the horizon to